Central Asia in Art

Introduction: Soviet Orientalism - the Untold StoryChapter 1. The Politics of Multinationalism: Messages from the CentreThe Union of NationsNationality PolicyThe Great Russian PeopleThe Imperial Project and Soviet ArtRussificationTransformationsMoscow and MuscovitesMetroThe WarChapter 2. Soviet Totalitarianism: the Visual ExperimentInvented Doctrine and Exploitation of Visual ImageryArt Caged within GesamtkunstwerkIdeal Humans in the Multinational Context of the USSRChapter 3. Teaching to See: Bringing Art to the RepublicsCentral Asia and the Great Russian BrotherExploitation, Labour and IndustrySemion Chuikov: Daughters of Soviet Kyrgyzia (or Lolitas of the Soviet EastSoviet Orientalism? Or Orientalism as Alternative? Pavel Benkov: Soviet ImpressionismAlexander Volkov: Alternative East or Late ModernismMuseumification of National IdentityChapter 4. Learning to Be: the Natives Learn to Paint or the Arrival of Soviet IdentitiesNational versus Soviet: from History to Everyday LifeThe Challenge to Tradition: the Patriarchal family versus the Soviet FriendLiteracy, Language and EducationLand, Agricultural Production and NostalgiaAbylkhan Kasteev: Primitive and NationalUral Tansykbaev: Avant-Garde road to Socialist Realist Dream Conclusion. De-Stalinization and Beyond, from Stalin to BoratAfter Stalin? From Kasteev to MeldibekovCentral Asia, Soviet Art, Orientalism: Discourses and ImagesBibliographical ReferencesList of IllustrationsIllustrations Appendix: Artists' Biographies

Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen is an art historian specializing in twentieth-century and contemporary Central asian art. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art.